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Functional

Jamie Lance

This publication traces the cycles people inherit without noticing. Addiction, self-destruction, emotional survival, identity. How they form, what they take from you, and who you become once you stop living on autopilot.

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Addiction Didn’t Take My Health First. It Took My Years.

Nobody picks up a drink thinking they’re starting a thirty-year habit. That’s not how it works.

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    I can help you trace the pattern back to where it started. Thirty years of functional addiction. Thirty-five jobs. Years doing mental health work with ex-prisoners and addicts who’d been failed by everyone. That’s what informs my writing.

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